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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: In terms of the different funding streams that were available to schools, do we know at this moment how many schools have these filters in place? If we were to have a Covid outbreak again or some other development next winter, how many schools would be in a better situation than they were during the pandemic in terms of keeping windows and doors open and all of those things?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I understand that. However, has the Department measured this in terms of where matters stand? Does Mr. Dolan know what I am trying to get at?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: This is a very important question. If we do not measure things as we go along, we do not know what to do in order to plan. We need to plan for what might happen in the context of future pandemics. This is a very basic health-and-safety issue within schools. We need to work collectively to address it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, but we need to match up the two, obviously, to make sure we are not just looking at those things and have the solutions in place. While we have the time, we should use it wisely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am surprised the figure is so low. We need to look at why that is the case. Was the scheme too bureaucratic or were there other things at play? That is something that might be worth another look, in terms of why that figure is so low.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Absolutely, but if Mr. Loftus went to a school in the west, he would know that opening windows is not always an option.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is very good.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: My question relates to the sodium valproate inquiry. The Minister knows it is more than two years since that was promised by the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, in the House. The officials from the Department have told Organisation Anticonvulsant Syndromes Ireland, or OACS Ireland, and Epilepsy Ireland that the draft terms of reference for this inquiry were to go to Cabinet before...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Question No. 158 is on retrospectiveness. I very much welcomed the Minister when he said retrospectiveness would be considered in the building defects redress scheme, as did the people in Mayo and Donegal. I want to tease that out further with the Minister. He said earlier that it was provided the work was certified. Will he better explain what we need to do? We need to give homeowners,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Minister for his clarifications around retrospectiveness. We will work with him to get that right. One thing I want to flag is that it would be grossly unjust if there were to be a time limit or an arbitrary cut-off point on that. Once the work can be certified and assessed in advance, testing has occurred and you have the engineer's report, there should be no time limit on it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the recently announced Celtic tiger building defects redress scheme will apply retrospectively; if the same terms will be extended to homeowners in County Mayo and other counties effected by mica and pyrite; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3718/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of new-build social homes that were delivered in 2022 in County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3719/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ukraine War (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the challenges Ukrainian refugees are experiencing in accessing car insurance due to the non-recognition of previous driving experience and claims history; the steps he is taking to ensure equitable access to car insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3827/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Sir John Major (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I welcome Sir John. At the time of his prime ministership, I lived in London. I want to look at the Good Friday Agreement in terms of it being a living document, as we are the implementation committee of it. Obviously, the British and Irish Governments are co-guarantors of that agreement. The Good Friday Agreement and the 2003 joint declaration in St. Andrews, and the New Decade, New...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Sir John Major (26 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Looking at it a quarter of a century on the other side of the agreement, we question here what co-guarantor means and the responsibilities on both Governments to make sure those agreements are fully implemented. It is a concern. Also, many of the challenges people in the North face, even right now, would not be as challenging were those agreements to be implemented in full. We already...

Inshore Fishing: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank the Rural Independent Group for bringing forward this important motion. That is not surprising, seeing as I come from County Mayo, where we have many coastal communities. Those communities are in places such as Erris, Achill, Clare Island, Ballycastle, Porturlin and right along the coast. One of the major concerns they have had for years is that they have had to stand and watch as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: We need this to work for homeowners. There is clear evidence, as the Central Bank has warned on many occasions, that the waterfall of alternative repayment arrangements has not been sufficiently worked through by lenders. The easy reflex option of sale to third parties and vulture funds has been used, rather than finding sustainable solutions for borrowers. There is a cohort of borrowers...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I wish both of the Deputies well in the future and congratulate them on their new roles. I wish to bring to the Minister's attention, under the section of small businesses, that agriculture and farming probably make up most of the small businesses in rural Ireland. I wish to bring to the Minister's attention, in terms of the transfer of bank accounts from Ulster Bank and from banks that are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes. Will the Minister intervene with the banks and make them aware that they were supposed to do everything possible to make that transition as smooth as possible, but farmers are now finding that they do not have the overdraft facilities they had before. They are in real difficultly around that issue.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (24 Jan 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance the assessments that have and will be undertaken with regards to the Code of Conduct on Mortgage Arrears, CCMA, including the suite of alternative repayment arrangements; his plans to give the code full legal effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3100/23]